Broadwell looks back on banking career

9:45 PM,
Nov. 20, 2013

Ed Broadwell is retiring after 48 years as top banker at HomeTrust, turning a small savings and loan in Clyde into the regions largest community bank and now one of the few publicly traded companies headquartered in Asheville.

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He was North Carolina's youngest bank president when he took over Clyde Savings Bank in 1965 at the age of 27.

Over the next half century, Ed Broadwell helped turn that small thrift into HomeTrust Bank, a $1.5 billion institution that ranks as the state's 13th largest and the biggest community bank headquartered in Western North Carolina.

Broadwell had graduated as an economics major from UNC Chapel Hill and started work as a bank examiner. In that role, he had the chance to see firsthand a number of the state's financial institutions. ...